The Buckeye, May/June 2020

MAY/JUNE 2020 Vol. 31, Issue 3

The Official Publication of Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association

INSIDE: COVID-19 Updates Bobbie Schwartz's Advice for the Difficult "Side Yard" Marty Grunder's Practical Business Advice

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Discussions are tailored to the audience, weather and time of year, and characteristics of the location—no two walkabouts are ever the same.

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The Buckeye is published six times per year by Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association, Inc. 72 Dorchester Square, Westerville, OH 43081 614.899.1195 | www.onla.org

EDITORIAL / ADVERTISING ISSN 1536-7940 Subscriptions: $75/year alana@onla.org OFFICERS Emily Showalter, President Willoway Nurseries, Inc. Tim Clark, Immediate Past President H. J. Benken Florist & Greenhouses, Inc. Devon Stanley, President-Elect Benchmark Landscape Construction, Inc. DIRECTORS Jason Cromley Hidden Creek Landscaping, Inc. Brandon Druffel Dan Druffel, Inc. Michael Hall Harrell's LLC Molly John M.J. Design Associates, Inc. Scott Knowles Wolf Creek Company Wendy Moore Davis Tree Farm & Nursery, Inc. Steve O’Neal Columbus State Community College

STAFF Ken Fisher, Executive Director Karen Lykins, Accounting Roni Petersen, Membership & Certification Alana Settle, Marketing & Communications

THE FINE PRINT The statements and opinions expressed herein are those of individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the association, directors or staff and do not constitute an endorsement of the products or featured services. Likewise, the appearance of advertisers, or their identification as members of the ONLA does not constitute an endorsement of the products or featured services.

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CONTENTS 3

Executive Director's Message

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President's Perspective

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Legislative Update

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Ohio High School Landscape Olympics 2020 Sponsorships

FEATURE STORIES 9

Every Challenge is an Opportunity by Marty Grunder

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Proving the Pawpaw Perspective by Gene Pouly

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Market Updates for ONLA Members by Mike Sullivan

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Side Yards: Asset or Liability by Bobbie Schwartz

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 24

In Memoriam

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Classifieds, Calendar of Events

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Advertising Index

On the Cover: A container display at the Bremec Greenhouse & Nursery, Chesterland, OH location. Bremec was a recipient of a Grand Award for best Theme, Show, or Education Garden as part of ONLA's 47th Annual Landscape Awards announced this past January.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Ken Fisher, ONLA Executive Director, ken@onla.org I hope all is well and you, your family, employees, business, and community are all healthy.

I don’t know how any of us could have adequately prepared for the “black swan” event that is the global pandemic that shut our economy down, literally overnight. But here we are.

Fighting on.

President Ronald Reagan once quipped that “recession is when your neighbor loses his job; depression is when you lose yours.”

There will be few people whose economic livelihoods are not impacted by the coronavirus. One of the most challenging aspects of this crisis, aside from the incredible human toll, is the uncertainty of not knowing how long it will last or how severe it will be. Let’s hope the worst of the impact can be mitigated.

At ONLA we have worked diligently since the beginning to keep our businesses and industry supply chains open. Consumers, adhering to stay at home orders with children in tow have been buying greenhouse and nursery products at garden centers across the state since spring temperatures arrived. When the grass started to grow and mulch needed to be laid, most landscape crews showed up as usual to get the job done. We published Best Management Practices and Safety Guideline for our members to follow and our industry has demonstrated stellar performance in managing the health and safety of workers and customers with modified processes, layouts, and procedures. Employees and customers are grateful.

For the foreseeable future there is a new normal.

• High touch customer service changes to no-touch customer service. Transacting business from six feet away and with verbal or electronic signatures.

Additional use of the internet for orders, inventory, and commercial communications.

• New protocols for monitoring employee health. More leniency and leave for workers with symptoms.

• Physical and technological modifications to separate employees, vendors, and customers. From plexiglass dividers to modified break schedules to cashless transactions, “necessity is the mother of invention” across our industry.

• Face masks, hand washing stations, scheduled equipment and workspace cleaning are among the modifications we are all quickly adopting.

• And many other processes and practices required to onla.org

operate in a safe and healthy manner. You may have seen many of these recommendations on the ONLA website.

In addition to working to keep our supply chains open, the ONLA staff has also been aligned with our national coalition partners to make sure our industry has adequate liquidity to weather the storm. Government stimulus and SBA loans have been important to keep small business operating, workers employed, payroll’s backstopped, and hopefully adequate operating funds for our small businesses. Many in our industry in Ohio took advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program offered as part of the April $2T stimulus package. We are fighting for more financial support for our industry in future government stimulus packages.

Know that your ONLA team will continue to monitor the changing business environment, fight for our industry, and keep you informed of changes you need to be aware of.

What we do together matters—now more than ever—when it comes to growing and protecting the future of our industry in Ohio and beyond. Your membership in ONLA will encourage others to join. I appreciate your continued support of ONLA. Help us get the word out: the industry benefits from a growing ONLA membership. B

Ken can be contacted at ken@onla.org May/June 2020

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Your Go-To Reference Guide

LANDSCAPE PLANTS FOR OHIO

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Kevin Lahna Finishing Touch Landscape 3555 Glenn Highway Cambridge, OH 43725 Tom Thornton Tom's Lawn Service P.O. Box 884 Sidney, OH 45365 Brian Lowe Husqvarna NA 808 Juniper Ct Tipp City, OH 45371 Grant Hill Kaffenbarger Truck Equipment 9389 Clermont Blvd Powell, OH 43065

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This semi-evergreen plant grows 18– 24” tall. Flowers appear in summer and are 1–1 1/2” in diameter and saucershaped. Makes a good cut flower.

Best grown in cool sites and neutral to alkaline soils.

Anemon e ‘Marga rete’ Grows to 2’ tall and flowers on multi-br has double pink anched stems.

Campanula poscharskyana ‘Blue Waterfall’ Serbian Bellflower A low-growing vigorous habit makes this a great ground cover or candidate for the mixed border. Grows 8–10” tall with low mounds of light green foliage covered with dark blue bell-shaped flower in the summer.

Campanula carpatica ‘White Clips’ and ‘Blue Clips’ Bell Flower Have deep blue (‘Blue Clips’) or white (‘White Clips’), cup-shaped flowers in the summer and grow 8” tall in a compact mound. Makes a good groundcover or plant for the front of the garden border.

Campanula glomerata Clustered Bellflower This plant grows 12–18” tall and has deep purple flowers in early summer that are arranged in upward-facing clusters. Tolerates wet soil. Divide every two years to promote vigor.

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PRESIDENT'S PERSPECTIVE Emily Showalter, Willoway Nurseries, Inc.

As I write this early April 2020, and look back over the past few weeks, the world as we once knew it has significantly changed.

We went into 2020 with the mindset that this was going to be a great year for the economy and the green industry. Then we all were hit (like a ton of bricks) with the enormous wakeup call of COVID-19. I am optimistic that by the time this publication gets into your hands, the ship will be stabilized. The reality is that among many lifestyle changes, social distancing, limited events and gatherings, closed businesses, and home-schooling, a new way of life is expected for the foreseeable future.

coronavirusresources. There you will find a multitude of information such as: financial assistance programs, workforce resources, tax filing updates/information, and resources we can use to promote the benefits of plants in everyone’s’ lives.

I commend the green industry for our professionalism in this time of uncertainty. We all knew that our industry was one big family before the COVID outbreak. From what I have seen in our industry, I believe we have taken our green-industry family to a new level. We came together to help each other figure out if we made the list of essential businesses. We spent hours upon hours discussing various protocol each business was considering if they chose to stay open so that we could protect the health and safety of our customers and employees.

We supported our customers and competitors if they chose to close. We spent more time than anyone ever would choose to spend reading and re-reading government regulations and CDC protocol. We got outside of our comfort zones and set up home offices for our employees and maybe ourselves too. We implemented new technology to help our teams stay connected and communicate a consistent message. We figured out how to social distance ourselves in an industry where we are so used to working side by side our work family. We became as flexible as ever to roll with the daily (sometimes hourly) changes and curveballs that were thrown our way. We gave each other a sense of calm. We didn’t complain. We didn’t say it wasn’t fair.

We banded together, as a family does.

I don’t think anyone knows whether we will be facing new hurdles related to the COVID-19 pandemic at the time you’re reading this. I for sure do not know what the future holds.

No one wants to spend their time on the above tasks. Not one of us. It’s spring! We all want to be focused on selling plants, installing landscapes, creating wonderful spaces in our communities. We are cautiously positive that spring will come, it will just be delayed several weeks. Gardening has not been cancelled. It is our job to promote the green industry to the community right now, more than ever. There are so many resources out there already that we can use to get our message across about the economic, health and wellbeing benefits of plants. ONLA has our backs – visit onla.org/

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I commend the ONLA for their leadership, connection to a multitude of resources, ears to listen, and our membership for supporting each other. We all know that we will make it through this. It sure is nice to know that we are going to make it through together.

Everyone at the ONLA wishes you good health and we hope you are finding positive things in your lives to focus on.

Please feel free to reach out to any of the ONLA board or staff if you need anything at all to help you through this time of uncertainty. B

Emily can be contacted at eshowalter@wwninc.com

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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Belinda Jones, Capitol Consulting Group

COVID-19 UPDATE It is with great hope that as you read this, your personal and professional life is somewhat returning to normal.

The pandemic has been a crushing blow to not only our industry but businesses large and small all over the country. At deadline for this article, the DeWine Administration is working on a plan to slowly reopen businesses. Hopes are that testing will be more widely available to give customers and employees the ability to feel safe as the transition to "open" happens.

Of course, in Ohio, we have been as fortunate as possible given the circumstances that early on green industry business were allowed to remain open. Even so, as the weeks go on, having a print out of safety measures you have in place for employees and customers would empower you to respond to any questioning that might take place. Questioning? It is worth giving some thought about enforcement.

Local Health Departments • The stay-at-home orders and business closure orders are being enforced by local health departments; note that local health departments have little to no understanding about many of our ag-related issues such as pesticide applications/licensing, etc...

• If you do not have a relationship with your local health department, now might be the time to establish the relationship before they stop by or pull over a truck unannounced.

• If there is a discrepancy from a health department warning and an activity that you believe is governed by the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) or other state agencies, call me: 614.679.5062 • There is a possibility that one local health department may have a different opinion than another local health department. The State anticipated that possibility and set up a Dispute Resolution system. On the link below, there is a form that can be filed electronically.

See: coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/ resources/Guidance/Dispute/Dispute-Resolution • If there is a dispute between local health departments, again, let me know, so I may let others in the industry to be on the lookout and/or let the administration know.

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Cost to the State The other big issue we are watching is the cost of the Coronavirus to the State of Ohio. In an interview with Hannah News Service, Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder called the current situation a "perfect storm of circumstances" that increases cost for the state during the crisis while state revenue is "plummeting". State leaders have estimated that the state budget could be as much as $2 billion short of projections by the end of the fiscal year (June 30).

How will the state make up for the shortfall?

• Cuts: Governor DeWine has asked all state agencies to make a 20% cut across the board to their current budget • From our point of view, we will stay in communication with ODA about what impact the cuts will have on our programs (i.e. can they/will the state raid the rotary fund we established for nursery inspections?)

• ODA has already announced that the H2OH program will be undergoing a "budgetary re-evaluation".

Although nearly 2,000 farmers applied to the program for voluntary conservation, it has become clear that the pandemic is causing major disruptions to all state funding including H2OH • Another option the state has is to utilize the "rainy day fund" which currently has an approximate balance of $2.7 billion; using the rainy day fund contingency is already possible due to the passage of the Coronavirus Response Bill, HB 197.

ODA Inspections In the midst of all of this, green industry inspections will continue. Toward that end, ODA has issued "Inspectors Safety Protocol": https://agri.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/oda/divisions click on the Administration tab, then the Resources tab for more information.

Small Business Help Ohio is trying to provide as many resources as possible online. Here is a link to the Employer/Employee webpage on the Coronovirus.Ohio.Gov website: https://coronavirus.ohio. gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/employers-and-employees/. If you have any difficulty navigating the website or the programs touted therein, please call me. onla.org

Pressure Mounts on DeWine to Reopen Businesses Nearly all experts have applauded Ohio's fast and stringent actions with the Stay at Home order and other orders.

Meanwhile, as the weeks have worn on, many republican legislators are pressuring the Governor to open up the state.

While calls for "reopening" are coming from many different directions, some of the louder voices are coming from legislators in rural areas where the virus is not as prevalent. Senators Matt Huffman (R; Lima) and Rob McColley (R; Napoleon) along with several others have been urging the Governor to scale back the current order.

Meanwhile, Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Director Amy Acton has cautioned about reopening too soon. Acton stated in a recent press conference that we need to "go slow to go fast".

She indicates that reopening too soon could cause additional/ new "spikes" in the virus calling for a second rollback which would be devastating. DeWine and Acton keep reiterating that they are trying to balance the health of Ohioans with the health of the economy.

LEGISLATIVE SCHEDULE Normally during election years, the legislature has a lighter session schedule so members can be in the district to campaign.

Because of the Coronavirus, session dates this spring have been canceled. At deadline, neither the House nor the Senate have announced session calendars but it appears from comments in the news media that both chambers plan to return mid-May to tackle not just Coronavirus issues but other bills that were already in the works before the pandemic. Stay tuned! B

Belinda Jones can be contacted at bjones@capitol-consulting.net or 614.224.3855

BWC BOARD APPROVES $1.68 BILLION PREMIUM REFUND TO HURTING BUSINESSES At the request of Governor DeWine, the OBWC Board had an emergency meeting to approve a 100% refund of premiums for private employers. The employer must be an active business as of April 4, 2020.

Dividend checks will be mailed in "batches" to employers.

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Links in this article and additional information and industry news to help you navigate business challenges related to the Coronavirus pandemic, can be found on ONLA's website:

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EVERY CHALLENGE IS AN OPPORTUNITY Marty Grunder, Grunder Landscaping Co.

As I sit down to write this column, it’s early April and Governor DeWine has recently extended our state’s stay-at-home order through the end of the month. As difficult as this situation has been for all of us, the aggressive measures we’ve taken in Ohio appear to have been very effective in reducing the spread of the coronavirus and in saving lives.

At Grunder Landscaping, we’ve worked hard to do our part too, by paring back our services to comply with state and local guidance and by adopting and rigorously enforcing strict safety protocols that protect the health of our team members, our clients, and our community. I won’t lie and say it’s been easy, or that it won’t impact our bottom line. But we’ve also learned some important lessons that will make us a better and stronger company going forward.

I hope that by the time you’re reading this, we’ve all been able to return to our regular routines, our businesses are operating at full capacity again, and we’re enjoying a beautiful spring.

Here are a few of the lessons I’ll be carrying forward with me: Your business is only as good as your team. It can be stressful to own a business even in the best of times—all eyes are often on you, and families are depending on the success of your company for their livelihoods. The coronavirus has been especially stressful, but I am amazed by the way our leadership team at GLC has stepped up and pulled together. They worked quickly to build a thorough checklist of every safety measure we need to follow and created a system to ensure we’re all held accountable to it. They reconfigured our job schedules and crews to enable us to do more with less. They found new ways to save us money to make up for lost revenue. Their initiative and resourcefulness have powered us through, and I am lucky to have them. Now the onus is on me to show them my gratitude, and to help them continue to develop as leaders in their own right.

Embrace technology. Seth, our general manager at GLC, has really pushed us in the last two years to adopt new technology and to go fully paperless. We’ve transitioned to a digital schedule board and switched to Aspire software; the coronavirus forced us to speed up our plans even more. Now suddenly older folks on our team like myself have become adept at Microsoft Teams and Zoom conference calls and webinars. We’re able to get more done faster, and to improve our efficiency rating—which translates directly into money onla.org

saved. We’re lessening our impact on the environment, too.

Are there other technologies we could and should be using?

You can bet we’re going to be looking for them.

Cultivate relationships. I have long subscribed to the belief that people do business with people they know, like, and trust. That’s why I’ve made it a point over the years to send handwritten thank-you notes to prospects and clients, to mail them newspaper clippings or articles I think they’ll find interesting, to return their calls quickly, and to show up when they need me. In other words, I’ve built relationships with these people, and that means that in challenging times I can rely on them for their patience and understanding. Nearly all of our clients at GLC have supported us and our operational decisions; they genuinely want our business to succeed, and that makes me feel good every day about the company we’ve built. I am ordering more notecards now.

Stay positive. Hope is not a strategy, but the companies that endure and thrive over the long term keep their eyes focused on the positive. As trying as this situation has been, a lot of good has come from it. At GLC we’ve grown tighter as a team. We’ve gotten smarter and more efficient in the way we operate. We’ve strengthened our bonds with our clients. I’ve gotten to spend more time with my family than I have in a long while. I know better and brighter days are up ahead for all of us, and that’s what I’m going to stay focused on. B

Contact Marty at marty.grunder@ grunderlandscaping.com May/June 2020

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ABOUT THE EVENT The Ohio High School Landscape Olympics tests students’ skills through hands-on, competitive events designed by industry professionals. OHLO broadens the high school education experience and introduces students to the many career opportunities available in the green industry.

WHY SHOULD YOU GET INVOLVED? We know that retaining quality employees is a priority, and ONLA is dedicated to building a strong workforce for our industry.

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In 2019, the event welcomed more than 250 students from 18 schools across the state. Excitement is already building for the fifth annual event. Your support will make OHLO 2020 bigger and better.

OHLO 2020 Thursday, October 15 & Friday, October 16, 2020 OSU ATI Campus, Wooster, OH

Thursday Night Kick-Off Party Students and sponsors enjoy pizza and games Competition briefings and introductions

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Fun Zone Activities and education for students when they are not competing in Friday’s events

Awards Ceremony Gold, Silver and Bronze medals for individuals Team trophies

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Proving the Pawpaw Perspective Gene Pouly, E.F. Pouly Company The pawpaw tree, Asmina triloba, has a long tradition as being a part of the natural as well as cultivated landscape. It has a hardiness for zones 5 to 9 and is a native plant found in Ohio, most of the Eastern United States below the New England states, and into Florida. As early as 1806 it was recorded: “The Lewis and Clark expedition was 150 miles from settlements.

The expedition had ‘run entirely out of provisions and trade goods, it had no manufactured goods… There were plenty of ripe plums, which the men called ‘pawpaw’s’. Gathering a few bushels was the work of a few minutes only. The men told the captains they could ‘live very well on the pawpaws’.’ (Ohio Pawpaw Growers Association, 2002).

Ten years ago, I had the opportunity to install a “rain garden” for a client in which I included pawpaw trees. (Reference an article I authored in April 2010 in ISA's Arborist News, and a similar article in May 2010 in ONLA's The Buckeye titled Rain Gardens, The Green Wave.) The preparation for the planting bed was prescribed for rain garden/wet meadow plants.

Technically, it was not the best soil conditioning recommended for the pawpaw installation and I admit to varying from the architect’s specs to include the pawpaw. The pawpaws on this site were transplanted into the rain garden as a single stem landscape tree. Single stem, trained to one trunk, being the usual form for ornamental or horticultural use.

Over the last 10–12 years, I have had the pleasure to observe the success or failure of pawpaw installations in three different venues: a rain garden, a bio swale, and a traditional landscape understory planting. I am an advocate of the use of the pawpaw as a landscape plant in situations consistent with its growth characteristics and recommend it to grounds managers as an underutilized plant.

Pawpaw’s requirements of deep, fertile, well-drained soil on a sloping site with air drainage and shade during establishment did not qualify with the micro climate and soil specifications for this rain garden. As a general observation, rain gardens take approximately three years to become established. This rain garden's soil was comprised of high PH subsoil clay, and most likely contained saline conditions from parking lot run off as well as automobile pollutants (e.g. motor oil, grease, antifreeze, etc.) since it was adjacent to a large parking lot area.

The planting included various grasses, perennials, forbs, etc. I have been able to observe over the last ten years that this same rain garden flourished, admittedly it did have proper landscape management techniques in its maintenance. The rain garden plants have been cut down periodically to renovate the area.

This could simulate a natural burn down by fire to rejuvenate the plant material, which in some locations could be a viable alternative to weed eating. Some of the pawpaw trees were injured in the process and formed root suckers, which is their natural form. Pawpaws tend to grow in thickets in the wild and over time, in this planting, some of the plants have reverted to that form. (See left) In a separate area designed as a bio swale, a diversity of plant material primarily designed for a wet site was installed. This included shrubs such as viburnum, shrub dogwood, and a variety of sedges. I did not do the original installation but came in later as a maintenance contractor, at which time I added pawpaws as a trial to replace several trees that did not do well.

This area was also subject to deer pressure. Again, the pawpaw are holding up well but not as vigorously as in the rain garden, perhaps due to less vegetation at the base of the plant to shade and protect the roots.

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Used in a landscape application, I was able to observe the pawpaws in a third micro-climate. The pawpaws were installed as a group planting to be an understory layer beneath a canopy of maples on a gentle south facing slope. At installation, the tree baskets were removed, to allow root development and pawpaws were planted with the root flare/collar exposed. Shredded bark mulch was used as a temporary ground cover. This installation is as close as we get to a text-book planting. All the trees had minimal losses, and great fruit production. Please note that the fruit are sought after by wildlife and you are lucky if you get to the fruit first. There is no chance for a mess from fallen fruit.

The pawpaw is an unusual plant—reproductively. It is considered trioecious, meaning they have staminate, pistillate, and hermaphrodite flowers on different plants. The flowers are also protogynous, signifying that the pollen ripening along with the receptiveness of the flower, are not in harmony. This being said, on the negative side pawpaws are a challenge to pollinate. The plants have both sexes on the same plant, but the timing causes them to not be able to pollinate themselves.

Furthermore, bees do not assist in pollination because the flowers are pollinated by beetles and flies (the plants are fetid, denoting that they stink like rotting flesh to attract pollinators).

In my experience, hand pollination works tremendously well.

I have had success in fruit production from hand pollinating plants from trees in the same patch on my property in Wayne County, Ohio.

The pawpaw fruit generally ripens mid-September to October.

The full moon in September has long been recognized as the “Moon of the pawpaws” (Blue Jacket- Warrior of the Shawnees

by John Sugden, p115).

The native pawpaw tree is much more versatile than has been thought in the past as far as adaptability to different microclimates. It is a great plant to use in a sustainable landscape, group planting or as a landscape specimen, or as an addition to the edible landscapes that have become more popular in recent years. It is also a tree that adapts well to the more difficult moist landscape micro-climates. B Gene Pouly has been the CEO of the E.F. Pouly Company since 1981. He is also a past president of the Professional Grounds Management Society, past president of the GIE board (Green Industry & Equipment Expo) and currently represents the Professional Grounds Management Society on the ANSI A-300.”

Gene can be contacted at info@efpouly.com.

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MARKET UPDATES AVAILABLE TO ONLA MEMBERS Mike Sullivan, Wealth Coach Financial Services, Inc.

I trust all is well with you and you are finding ways to navigate through these interesting times.

Here is a quick big-picture perspective on the financial markets & an invitation to learn more: One for the History Books: I can attest first-hand how wild these days have been in the investment markets, and we know full well the human psyche is very strained, as everyone tries to interpret the events of the day. This is indeed one for the history books!

Speaking of history books, the wild antics of the central banks are on full display, with trillions being invented out of thin air.

History books give us clues as to how this all may turn out, and they also share honest lessons about periods of time in which things did not go so well. Only time will tell which period we are in … right here, right now.

It’s All About Math: Mathematically—and logically—the stunning amount of new dollars being created should very simply mean that more dollars chasing the same number of assets would mean each asset rise as more dollars in existence chase each asset. In fact, that is precisely what has happened your entire adult life.

Look for details on the webinars on ONLA’s Linked-In page and at onla.org/marketupdtes including dates and times and the topics which will be broken into Market Updates and History Lessons. These webinars will be interactive and include Q&A sessions to allow you to inquire about various strategies or tools you might use … regardless of what the history books dial up for us.

Please plan to join us during our next webinar, and send me any questions or topics you would like to discuss in advance so we can tailor our conversation. We look forward to connecting and providing you with entertaining, valuable, actionable perspectives.

I will close with well-wishes for you, your family, friends, business, and the business family you go to battle with every day. B

Contact Mike at mikes@wealthcoachfinancial.com

We would all like to be on the winning side of higher values to come that would bring us a stock market recovery, higher home values, bigger retirement account balances, and better business valuations. I know first-hand too, that everyone wants to hear that that result is guaranteed. A few people also like to know what steps they might take in the event this chapter in the history book turns out to be one of the more difficult times.

Upcoming Communication/Events: So with that in mind, we are offering to all ONLA members evening webinars that cover what just happened in the markets and potential paths forward. We will include what we hope will happen, as well as what might happen given technical data points we look at daily: in short - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is available for you Clint Eastwood fans to consider. And, we’ll tell it to you straight, just like Clint would.

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By Bobbie Schwartz, FAPLD

A few rectilinear posts and bars are used create a simple arbor and gate that divide the front from the back. onla.org

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Most side yards are narrow and either unusable or ugly space. Basically, they are merely a means of access from the front to the back. Could that avenue become something special?

Typically, side yard paths are linear and boring. The journey would be much more interesting if a curvilinear path was constructed. Any material would work but consider echoing one of the materials of the house or other hardscaping.

The owner of a Chicago home turned one of the side yards into a series of terraced outdoor rooms. Each of the new rooms could be viewed and accessed from French doors in the adjoining rooms or from a path at the front of the house. Thus, ugly and unused space became a joyful journey from the front to the back or from the inside to the outside.

It is amazing what a difference an arbor and gate can make.

The arbor can be very simple or it can be creative. The choice depends on taste and budget. Regardless, the arbor and gate should be similarly designed.

(Top to Bottom) This side yard is boring.

Terraced rooms were created at the side of this house with a set of pergolas, steps, and a lattice fence (unseen) on the right.

This curvilinear concrete path uses the same concrete as the driveway. As the plants on the left mature, the walk will become more enjoyable.

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Several narrow properties in Newport, Kentucky were separated by grass strips, utilitarian and undistinguished. In many instances, neighbors agreed to replace the grass with interesting stone paths set between narrow planting beds or between a series of planted containers. These paths serve as journeys to interesting but small back yards.

A latticed arch is painted the same color as the house but, sadly, the gate is not coordinated with the arch.

An irregular cut stone path, bordered by narrow planting beds filled with plants of different textures, leads to the back patio.

This arbor is also simple but more creative as the top is angled. Both arbor and gate are painted the same color as the house trim

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Frequently, side yards are fenced to keep children and animals from escaping, and, of course, have a gated entrance. An ordinary gate that matches the fence would be the cheapest option but an interesting gate would make the entrance more inviting.

This gate matches the material of the fence but is utilitarian.

This wooden gate immediately attracts the eye.

A side yard in Buffalo, barely wide enough for one person to walk is greatly enhanced with an elaborate, wrought iron gate.

My shady side yard is divided by a stone walk. The bed next to the house stays moist but the fence bed is fairly dry, thus the plantings are different ecosystems. The gate echoes iron work on other parts of the house.

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Because most side yards are long and narrow, it is always a challenge to create an interesting design for them. A Cleveland designer friend of mine, Kevin O’Brien, was asked to create something that would be interesting yet low maintenance.

His solution was intersecting paths that had different textures, simple plantings, and a fence window that allows a visitor to peek into the garden before entering it while also serving as a focal point when embarking on the journey back. Unlike many side yards, this one does not serve as access from front to back but is, instead another “room” with privacy for the owner.

Side yards are almost always an afterthought. We, as landscape designers, can make them so much more. Let’s turn alleyways into usable, thought-provoking journeys. B Bobbie may be contacted at bobbie@bgthumb.com

Before hiring a landscape designer, the owner of this narrow side yard was looking at grass that didn’t want to grow and shallow, stone covered beds.

Afterward, this curvilinear gravel path provides a visual means of making one forget that the site is long and narrow while the rectilinear path provides firm footing.

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